film
Meanings
Plural: films
Noun
- a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement
- "the film was shot on location"
- a medium that disseminates moving pictures
- "film coverage of sporting events"
- photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies
- a thin coating or layer
- "the table was covered with a film of dust"
- a thin sheet of (usually plastic and usually transparent) material used to wrap or cover things
- A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
- A medium used to capture images in a camera.
- A visual art form that consists of a sequence of still images preserved on a recording medium to give the illusion of motion; movies generally.
- The sequence of still images itself, which produces a moving image when played; a movie.
- A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
Verb
- make a film or photograph of something
- record in film
- "The coronation was filmed"
- To record (activity, or a motion picture) on photographic film.
- To visually record (activity, or a motion picture) in general, with or without sound.
- To cover or become covered with a thin skin or pellicle.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English filme, from Old English filmen (“film, membrane, thin skin, foreskin”), from Proto-West Germanic *filmīn-, from Proto-Germanic *filmīn- (“thin skin, membrane”) (compare Proto-Germanic *felma- (“skin, hide”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pél-mo- (“membrane”), from *pel- (“to cover, skin”). Cognate with Old Frisian filmene (“thin skin, human skin”), Middle Dutch velm, vilm (“fleece, film, membrane”), Old High German felm (“peel, skin, wrap”), Old English *felma (in ǣġerfelma (“egg membrane”)). Related also to Dutch vel (“sheet, skin”), German Fell (“skin, hide, fur”), Swedish fjäll (“fur blanket, cloth, scale”), Norwegian fille (“rag, cloth”), Lithuanian plėvē (“membrane, scab”), Russian плева́ (plevá, “membrane”), Ancient Greek πέλμα (pélma, “sole of the foot”). More at fell. Sense of a thin coat of something is 1577, extended by 1845 to the coating of chemical gel on photographic plates. By 1895 this also meant the coating plus the paper or celluloid.
Synonyms
celluloid, cinema, flick, motion picture, motion-picture show, movie, moving picture, moving-picture show, photographic film, pic, picture, picture show, plastic film, shoot, take
Scrabble Score: 9
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